2017
DOI: 10.21071/reudar.v1i0.10162
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Costruire ingegnosamente riutilizzando materiali poveri. L’impiego di conchiglie a fini edilizi ad Aquileia tra età repubblicana e tarda antichità.

Abstract: In this paper, we take into exam six different contexts in Roman Aquileia in which considerable amounts of shells, originally collected for different purposes (dietary consumption or purple dye production), were re-used as raw material in building activities, either inserted in mortars or used as floor foundation. Shells as building material have useful properties, which are here analyzed. Themes such as technological transmission among cultures are discussed through the examination of other attestations of th… Show more

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“…Dilaria reconstructed in detail the use of aragonite in building technologies [37]. In ancient times, people used shells for food, rituals, decoration, fishing, and for lighting lamps.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Dilaria reconstructed in detail the use of aragonite in building technologies [37]. In ancient times, people used shells for food, rituals, decoration, fishing, and for lighting lamps.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In any case, the use of shells has been described in Roman sources in the 4th century C.E., when it seemed that they improved the set-up of the mixture. Dilaria reports numerous cases of findings in the Mediterranean area, e.g., Greece, Lebanon, Egypt, Italy, Tunisia, dating from the Bronze Era to the Byzantine Era [37]. Shells have mainly been found in the preparation of floors, wall coverings, foundations of buildings, mosaics, cisterns, but rarely for the mortar support of frescoes.…”
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“…The aggregates used in these mortars have a local provenance, as their petro-mineralogical nature corresponds with the sediments of the Isonzo-Natisone-Torre fluvial networks 52 , regularly employed as raw aggregate in mortars [53][54][55][56] and wall-paintings 57,58 of Roman Aquileia.…”
Section: )mentioning
confidence: 99%